Angela M Angie Samota
Summary of Offense:
Donald Andrew Bess was sentenced to die for the 1984 murder and rape of a Southern Methodist University student. Bess was convicted of sexually assaulting Angela Samota, then stabbing her repeatedly, possibly with a kitchen knife from her condominium near the SMU campus.
Samota was 20 at the time of her death. The murder remained unsolved for decades, until recent DNA tests connected Bess with the crime. He is currently serving a life sentence for an unrelated rape in the Houston area. Two women testified that he had raped them as well. Those attacks were in addition to the one for which he is currently serving life. His former wife testified that he physically and psychologically abused her. He'd just been paroled on a rape conviction in 1984 when he raped and killed Samota.
Bess was sentenced to death in Dallas County on June 18, 2010.
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